Melodee Rhodes

Right.

To be able to support myself where I didn't before.

So I had the income, you know, to be able to support myself.

So I started to think of, like, how did I want to make a difference in this world?

And there were things that I loved.

Like, I always say that I wish I had about three or four more lives to live, maybe like a cat, like maybe nine.

Because I could think of nine different things that I would do if I got to come back.

But I always loved logistics.

And so I got into that.

And that kind of pushed me into the next area of my life, which was, like, franchising and

And I own two Smoothie Kings down in, or up, I guess you could say, in the metro Atlanta area in Georgia.

And then speaking, you know, I always say that what's the last thing I want to do when I'm on this earth, like as far as career wise, and that's share my story.

So that's what brings me here.

It's like life full circle.

I really want to share my story because I think that it's one of...

A lot of failures, a lot of setbacks, a lot of losses.

But I've arrived, you know, I've made it to this stage of my life and I'm only going to grow and get better every day.

But I think that once people hear my story and realize how I mean, even my one of my best friends asked me the other day, Mel, after all you've been through, how do you get up?

She said, every day, how do you get up?

I was like, I don't know.